Arundel Castle

[asreoninfusion]

Yeah, it’s a week late, but a week late is better than never, right? ^^;;

In any case, I finally have that photospam I promised you! I gave up trying to find that silly cable and went and stole Colin’s camera and the cable for that (I tried using his cable with my camera, but it was the wrong size *pout*) and switched the memory cards and uploaded everything like that. *nodnod*

So. This is Arundel Castle. My dad was only willing to pay for the cheap tickets, so we weren’t allowed inside the castle very much, but the grounds were awesomely shiny anyway. Like, awesomely shiny. I’m not usually one for paying much attention to gardens, but this one was amazing. You’ll see.

Only one more thing to say really, and that is to apologise for the crappiness of the photos. I don’t do justice to the awesome, seriously. The lighting was really difficult, cause the sky was cloudy but bright, so it either had the sky the right colour and the foreground too dark to see anything, or the foreground visible and the sky completely bleached, depending on what exposure you used. At least, that’s what my dad said, and I just smiled and nodded cause I wasn’t entirely sure what he was on about when he started going into exposure lengths and fractions of seconds and things. He does professional photography, so I assume he knows what he’s talking about.

Well, anyway. The point is I couldn’t get the lighting to play nicely, so the photos aren’t brilliant. I will also admit to increasing the contrast and otherwise playing with the settings on a lot of them to try and overcome that little problem. Heh. ^^;;

Firstly, the view as you approach the castle. Including some vintage cars they had parked on the lawn outside, for some bizarre reason…

Around past that turret on the left of that last photo to give another view of the castle…

Those previous two photos are of the more modern part of the castle, though when I say modern I mean only four or five hundred years old rather than eight or nine. Heh. These next photos are of the older part – I think it’s Norman, whenever that period was… *did not take history as one of subjects, though does regret not doing so now*

So, having circled the castle as much as the paths would allow (an entire massive part of it was privately owned, so we couldn’t go look at that) it was then onwards to the gardens, pausing to take a photo through the trees along the way…

...and then into the garden.

As I say, the photos don’t do it justice. But that’s just the boring part, anyway; there were lots of fun little features everywhere. This thing, for example, which I believe is called Oberon’s Temple and has a strange little water feature involving a floating crown inside…

Stupid peoples in my photo. Stupid big red fence detracting from the pretty. *shakes fist at both* Anyhow. I didn’t get a photo of that little water feature, cause it wasn’t really all that impressive compared with this one, for example;

Plus, a bonus random doorway to nowhere! Cause those things are always fun.

Obelisk! With shiny green plants and lots of pointyness in the background!

And finally… this thing! Woot for my descriptive power, ne? I don’t think it’s actually part of the castle – possibly a next door cathedral? Well, there was a nice view of it from the gardens either way.


 

And that, I believe, is all for now. And hopefully it won’t be another three weeks before I update my LJ again *ist teh fail at regular updating* -_-‘’ Well, as soon as I can get Zack to play nicely (why so hard to draw, Zacky?! >.< *flail*) I shall update with my little sketch I did in my maths book *nodnod* Until then~! *bows randomly then huggles* *goes off to have yet another attempt at drawing Zack* ^^